Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.